Tricking Out Firefox - Comments Page 1

One Add-in I really like is Mozilla Archive Format - this adds a format option under File,Save that lets you save the web page on your computer - useful when downloading programs to have requirements and install instructions, also for receipts, and more. Just saving the web page gives you a bunch of bits and pieces- scripts, images, etc. Whereas the MHT format compacts them into a single zipped file, openable by any browser. Printing to PDF is another option but it sometimes crops all the words on the right edge.

McAfee Site Advisor - it warns you if the site you've landed on spams or has virus laden downloads. Also displays in search results like Google. Not infallible but a very useful heads up.

Theres so many - Bookmark Links Checker, Amazing Media Browser, Quickzoom, Textlink. And if you do Web Development, the Web Developer toolbar, IE Tab, etc etc

Dear Bob, I've been using FF for a good while, and I'm now fully addicted... Here are two extensions I can't live without :

- IE view : calls IE from inside FF, to view the pages that where deeply microsofted and won't work at all without IE. You can even decide which pages will always open in IE, and it becomes fully transparent.

- Tab mix plus : A full-featured tool to do all what you always dreamed to do with your tabs : Reorder, reopen, duplicate, save, reload, protect, etc.

Hi Bob, I quite agree with your comments on Firefox - *far* superior to IE, especially because of the wonderful range of extensions. One little extension I wouldn't be without is New Tab Button on Tab Bar 2.0. Very simple, but it just makes opening an extra tab that little bit more quick and easy.

My favorite is Flashblock. It stops flash apps from automatically playing on your screen. It substitutes a symbol that you can click if you reallly want to see the animation. You can also configure it to allow flash apps on pages you select (a form of white list). While it still has some glitches, I wouldn't want to surf without it.

I've been a FF user since it was released (and the Mozilla suite before that) because it ran so much faster on my dial-up connection. My recent FF find is Colorful Tabs. This little add-on randomly colors each tab (when you have two or more, of course!) to better toggle or close the one(s) you want. I never thought the simple addition of color would help so much!!

G'day, I have Spoofstick with earlier versions of Firefox. However, Spoofstick doesn't have a version compatible with Firefox 2. I note that IE 7 has Spoofstick. Has MS purchased Spoofstick &/or CoreStreet?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Nothing so sinister... anti-phishing is built into FF now.

Yes, Firefox extensions *may* not work with latest version of the browser. BUT, new install of Firefox tests them and reports which don't work. Also, Mozilla lets you know when a new version of an extension is available. So there's little danger of extensions really becoming obsolete. Certainly this is not a reason to avoid Firefox.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't follow your logic. What if the developer of the extension decides not to update it for the most recent Firefox? It's obsolete!

At the company I work for, we use FF as our standard browser and place IE on a sub-menu for use when they find a rare website that just won't work with FF. The FF add-ons I personally use are: Aging Tabs, Copy Plain Text, Download Statusbar, IE Tab, Plain Text to Link, Print Preview, Searchbar Autosizer and Tab Mix Plus.

A couple of add-ons I rely on are Download Manager Tweak and NoScript. The latter allows the user to choose to run Java, etc., or not.

I agree about obsolete extensions. I was using KillGoogleAds,but it does not work on FF 2.0 It removed Google ads from web pages. I use Scroogle Scraper in my Search box, which works very nicely. I just wish another extension was available for the web sites. It is hard to find another extension with all that are available from Mozilla. Too much to read, and Search brings up everything I do not want.